And silver strings, value me sma' things, Till I get all this vengeance rowght!"

He ha[s] shot a' the fifteen foresters, Left never a one but one; 40 And he broke the ribs a that anes side, And let him take tiding home.

They have ridden oer muir and muss, And over mountains high, Till they met wi 'an' old palmer, 45 Was walking along the way.

"What news, what news, old palmer, What news have you to me?"

"Yonder is one of the proudest wed sons That ever my eyes did see. 50 * * * * *

"* * a bird in a' the wood Could sing as I could say; It would go in to my mothers bower,[L53]

And bid her kiss me, and take me away."

29. word.

36. faint hearted.

53. bows.

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SIR HUGH OF THE GRIME. (See p. 51.)

From Durfey's _Pills to purge Melancholy_, vi. 289.

The same is printed in Ritson's _Ancient Songs_ (ed. 1790), p. 192, from a collation of two blackletter copies, one in the collection of the Duke of Roxburgh, and "another in the hands of John Baynes, Esq." Several stanzas are corrupted, and the names are greatly disfigured. Ritson mentions in a note a somewhat different ballad on the same subject, beginning:--

"Good Lord John is a hunting gone."

As it befel upon one time, About mid-summer of the year, Every man was taxt of his crime, For stealing the good Lord Bishop's mare.

The good Lord Screw sadled a horse, 5 And rid after the same serime; Before he did get over the moss, There was he aware of Sir Hugh of the Grime.

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